Carmi Levy

Yeah, finally.

I mean, yeah, non-consensual explicit images are rampant online.

And in many cases, the victims did not intend for them to be online.

They were posted by someone, perhaps a vengeful ex or someone else, a cyber criminal.

And so they find when, you know, when you go searching for your name, suddenly this thing pops up and you realize it's

incredibly damaging.

And so they're building it into the features called results about you.

And whenever you search for an image, if you feel that it is, it qualifies as that you can have Google, you can ask them to remove it from their index so that when someone searches, it will not show up in a Google search.

Now,

The fine line here is that the original image will still be online.

It's just that Google will not find it when you search for it.

That's the key difference.

You still have to go to the original website, the original platform to have it removed.

But at least it's a lot harder for somebody to find.

It does a lot more to protect you from ensuring that other people will not see this content.

Yeah, it shows just how much the Internet has evolved since these original tools, since the DMCA, which I believe was enacted something like 20 years ago, first became a thing.

And some non-consensual imagery has become epidemic online.

And so, you know, I think Google is recognizing that a lot of the tools that are used to support DMCA takedown requests can also be redeployed, so to speak, for this kind of activity as well.

It's just another layer of protection.

They're also going to include a feature that when you tag something, so you see a photo, it's non-consensual, it's explicit, you click on the three dots, you flag it to remove it, and then it will then, in its index,